Problem in replacing string in vi editor

rajini23 · 02-16-2012, 03:33 AM

Hi,

I tried to replace a windows directory structure to http path structure in vi editor but it's giving me error "E488 trailing characters...

I use redhat 5.0
in vi Editor i wants to replace the string from ...

C:\Users\v-linuxsupportblr\Desktop\New\DataBase\ TO
http://180.190.35.6/

please help me on this

druuna · 02-16-2012, 05:53 AM

Hi,

You need 2 things to make this work:
- use a different, unique seperator (^ instead of /). This way you don't have to escape the forward slashes in the replace string.
- you need to escape all the back slashes in the search string, they are special.

Code:

:%s^C:\\Users\\v-linuxsupportblr\\Desktop\\New\\DataBase\\^http://180.190.35.6/^

Hope this helps.

rajini23 · 02-16-2012, 06:26 AM

Thank you so much it worked......

druuna · 02-16-2012, 06:33 AM

You're welcome